Mode of secirbutcr washboards to walls



THOS. ESTLACK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MODE OF SEGURING- WASI-IBOARDS T0 WALLS.

SpecifLcation of Letters Patent No. 13,000, dated June 5, 1855.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS EsTLAoK, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and ImprovedMode of Securing Wash or Base Boards to the Walls of Buildings; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specificat-ion, in which- Figure l, is a JfrontView of a portion of a wall showing my improvement. Fig. 2, is ahorizontal section of ditto, (ce), (m), Fig. 1, showing the plane ofsection. Figs. 3 and 4, are transverse vert-ical sections of ditto (y),(y), Fig. 1, showing the plane of section.

Similar let-ters of reference indicate corresponding parts in theseveral figures.

My invention consists in attaching the wash or base board to theflooring and to slides which work in guides attached to the wall as willbe presently shown and described, so that the wash or base board willfall or settle with the flooring and its lower edge always remain incontact with it.

A, represents the flooring of a building and B represents a wall whichmay be either of brick or studs lathed and plastered.

If .the wall is constructed of studs lathed and plastered,I secureguides C, to the lower ends of the studs, see Fig. 4. These guides maybe constructed of cast iron and a little shorter than the width of thewash or base board. The sides of the guides are not parallel With eachother but are oblique as clearly shown in Fig. 2. In a brick wall theguides are attached to the bricks at suitable distances apart, see Fig.3. Within the guides C, there are placed slides D, shown in Figs. 2, 3and 4. The slides may be constructed of hard wood and are allowed towork freely, up and down in the guides. The wall is plastered after theguides C, are attached to it and the outer surface of the plaster ismade Hush with the outer edges of the oblique sides of the guides.

E, represents the wash or base board which is nailed to the slides D,and also to the flooring A. The plastering should eX- tend down belowthe upper edge of the wash or base board for a short distance, as shownin Fig. 3.

The wash or base board being secured to the slides'D, and the flooringA, it will be seen that if the flooring settles or shrinks, the wash orbase board will settle with it, because the slides D, will move downwardin the guides C, and the lower edge of the wash or base board willconsequently be always in contact with the flooring and unsightly spacesbetween the flooring and wash or base boards avoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is,

Securing wash boards to the iooring A, and to slides D, which work inguides C, attached to the walls B, in the manner as herein shown or inan equivalent way so that the wash boards will, in case of the shrinkingor settling of the flooring, fall or settle with it, thereby causing thelower edges of the wash boards and flooring to be at all times in closecontact, as set forth.

THOS. ESTLACK.

Witnesses:

JAs. Guo. MASON, J. W. CooMBs.

